97-10-08 Advisory: MTV To Broadcast Live from Ohio State

                      NEWS ADVISORY:
MTV LIVE TO BROADCAST FROM STUDENT DORMITORY ROOM AT OHIO STATE

     Two students at The Ohio State University have been chosen
to interact with a live MTV broadcast from a student's dorm room
inside Drackett Tower, 161 Curl Drive, Thursday (10/9) from 5:30
to 6:30 p.m.  The students will talk face-to-face with an MTV
Video Jockey and celebrity guest live via computer and a video
camera.  They will be asked about their taste in music and what
they want MTV to air, and will also get to question the celebrity
guest.

     MTV Live is part of new interactive programming at MTV that
targets various college campuses nationwide for student
participation and viewership.  The system is wired through ISDN
telephone lines run through the student's dorm room and connected
to a computer with a camera perched on top.  The system connects
the students to the broadcast studio, allowing two-way television
for the students to interact with the VJ.

     Rachelle Beal, a senior from Erie, Penn., majoring in
sociology, and Kim Jones, a senior from Barbados majoring in
criminology, are the students involved.

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CONTACT: Jeff Redfield, Drackett Hall director, 292-8611.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:19:53 -0400 (EDT)]
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